Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:
If we assume that most people would prefer this "wait until the hook has
died" behavior, I think this shouldn't have any unwanted secondary
effects. I'm on the fence on whether it's what most people would want or
not (I guess most people don't care either way, because their scripts
don't ignore SIGINT).
Yeah, and imagining why they deliberately ignore INT (i.e. "because
I want this hook not be interrupted and run to its completion") does
not help guess if they want git to wait for hook's completion or
just go ahead and die of its own signal death. We could timeout the
waiting and kill such a child forcibly, and that may avoid these
hook script that ignore INT to hang around, but I do not know if
that is desirable.